All language subtitles for The.Secret.of.Skinwalker.Ranch.S05E00.Behind.the.Gates.Pheno

TRAVIS: What the hell
is that in the sky?

After five years
of intense investigation

on Skinwalker Ranch...

The meter's going nuts.

...our team has documented

unbelievable phenomena

all across the mysterious
512-acre property.

Look at this. What the heck
would have burned this post?

TRAVIS:
At locations
like the triangle...

Wow. Look at that.

TRAVIS:
...the mesa...

Popping smoke, popping smoke.

THOMAS: Look, look.
It's getting sucked in.

TRAVIS:
...Homestead Two...

What I saw doesn't belong here.

-Hold on.
-Hey.

TRAVIS:
...and more.

Right there.

We've experienced everything
from UAPs,

freak energy spikes

and underground anomalies
that have left us perplexed

as to what they are
or where they came from.

THOMAS:
Feel the difference.

TRAVIS:
Oh, wow. It's freezing.

Tonight, we're looking back
at compelling evidence

we've documented that suggests

all of these phenomena
and hot spots...

Look at that.

TRAVIS:
...might be directly related.

-Oh.
-Oh! Whoa. What was that?

TRAVIS:
Between otherworldly legends

of local Native American tribes

and rumors
about interdimensional gateways

reported by the Robert Bigelow
investigation--

that was partially financed

by the federal government
a couple decades ago--

our team is still trying
to figure out the truth

behind all the phenomena
that we've witnessed

on Skinwalker Ranch.

Look right here.

ERIK: This thing is
really clipping along.

TRAVIS:
All we know for sure is

that they are real,
and they seem to appear...

BRANDON:
Oh, my gosh.

TRAVIS:
...and disappear

without any
conventional explanation.

-That's insane.
-Yeah.

TRAVIS:
And one of the hot spots
that we've been focusing on

for several years to find some
answers is simply known

as "the triangle."

All right.

Are you gonna be able
to get the lidar drone up?

-Yup.
-Let's go.

After documenting multiple UAPs

and energy signals there

between 5,000
and just 30 feet high...

Check that out, Erik.
Real-time lidar point cloud.

...in 2022,

Jim Royston of OmniTeq flew
an infrared lidar drone

just above the triangle
while we launched a rocket.

We hoped
that Jim would capture images

of anything invisible
to the naked eye

that might explain the cause
of the phenomena.

Hey, that's a beautiful launch.

We caught it. It was amazing.

-ERIK: You want
to lead us into it?
-ROYSTON: Absolutely.

TRAVIS:
After he further
processed the data,

we could hardly believe
what we saw.

-What was that spot?
-ROYSTON:
For the last couple hours,

our team is trying
to look at this and say,

"Okay,
what would cause this void?"

TRAVIS:
Can you zoom way out?

-Whoa.
-ERIK: Look at that.

TRAVIS:
It was a perfect
circular anomaly

with a black void
right in the center.

It's-it's a shadow of something.

What... what are we looking at?

-THOMAS: A black hole? (laughs)
-Could be...

-I mean--
-TRAVIS: Well, that could be

a shadow of a wormhole.

Our speculation
was only reinforced

when a follow-up lidar scan
at the triangle

produced a three-dimensional
doughnut-shaped ring

just above the ground.

For decades, many scientists
have theorized that wormholes--

which are passageways

between two distant points
in space and time--

could actually exist.

And the circular anomalies

that Jim captured on his
lidar device appeared similar

in structure
to a theoretical wormhole.

All right, Cameron, be advised
we're ready to launch.

Are you in position?

TRAVIS:
Later that year, Erik Bard

and Kaleb Bench
flew above the triangle

with Brandon and Cameron Fugal
in their helicopter

to scan the airspace
with a spectrum analyzer

while we launched rockets
from the ground.

Dude, that one went.

ERIK: I'm getting lots of noise
in the RF spectrum.

It's as if there was, in fact,

some active interference
taking place.

Perhaps even some kind
of jamming.

TRAVIS:
Right after Erik detected
the radio frequency

interference
on his spectrum analyzer,

Cameron-- who was wearing

military-grade
night vision goggles--

saw what he described as a bunch

of orb-like UAPs
flying past the chopper.

No one else could see them
so it was anybody's guess

what they were
or where they were coming from.

ERIK:
I have some video footage taken

from the vantage point
of the helicopter

that we all need to get eyes on,

and you'll see why.

TRAVIS:
Yeah. I see the triangle off

-to the bottom left here, right?
-ERIK: Yup.

BRYANT:
Whoa.

-Oh.
-TRAVIS: Behind the mesa.

-Where'd it go?
-Where'd it go?

-Did it go right
behind the mesa?
-ERIK: Yes.

-TRAVIS: It did come out
of the mesa.
-BRYANT: Oh, my gosh.

-CAMERON: Came out of the mesa?
-It did come out of the mesa.

It came right out of the mesa.

What?

Yeah.

TRAVIS:
One of the incredible

Native American legends

we had heard was about UAPs

flying into and out of mesas.

And here, we captured images

of one entering the mesa
in the east field,

then exiting the other side

and flying
right toward the triangle.

Was this one of the UAPs
that Cameron saw?

And also, how could it fly
straight through solid rock?

Curiously, right where
the UAP entered the mesa,

there is an ancient petroglyph

that reportedly depicts
an interdimensional portal.

So, could there be some kind
of portal-related connection

between the east field

and the triangle
on Skinwalker Ranch?

Incredibly, that's just one
of the possible explanations

that we've discovered
during our investigation.

You're all good to go, huh?

Okay.

TRAVIS:
One of the craziest rumors

about Skinwalker Ranch is that

some kind of secret base

or alien structure is
buried underground.

So, in 2021,

after a former member of
the Bigelow team told us about

an old cave entrance
that was covered

by tons of boulders on the mesa,

we conducted
a drilling operation to see

if anything
of interest might be in there.

Hey, guys, come on down here.

That was quite the noise
that was just making.

Yeah, I'm up against
something pretty hard right now.

So, we're coming up
about 11 inches every ten feet.

So, it sounds like
you're describing

kind of a "V"

where this hard shelf
is coming down,

and now you're saying
that it's starting

to turn and go back up,
so we've got kind of a...

a "V" that your bit is sitting
there bumping up against.

May not even be a "V,"
it could even be maybe a dome.

TRAVIS:
A massive dome-shaped
obstruction

buried deep in the mesa that
the drill couldn't penetrate?

If that wasn't strange enough,

when we searched
through the drilling spoils,

we found a bunch
of metal fragments.

And after testing them
at the University of Utah,

they turned out to be composed

of the same kinds of materials

that NASA and SpaceX use

to protect the surfaces
of spacecraft.

After two separate drilling
operations were unsuccessful

in penetrating the bottom and
top of the dome-shaped object,

in 2023
ground-penetrating radar expert

Jan Francke ran an
extensive survey over the mesa

to get us better data on
what could be buried in there.

JAN:
Remember, this is not
the shape of the object.

This is just
what the radar sees.

Mm-hmm.

JAN:
The main target
is very, very clear.

But as we look at this,

there is an absolutely
obvious target

that extends
across this entire area.

Wow.

It looks a lot like you would
think a debris field would be.

ERIK:
Just think

about what circumstances
would produce a debris field

inside of a mesa.

TRAVIS:
Erik was right.

What could cause
a debris field like that?

Especially given our own video

of a UAP passing through
another section of the mesa

and flying toward the triangle.

Later that summer, we came up
with a new strategy to find out.

The plan was to drill boreholes

on either side
of the dome-shaped object

that would go all the way up
through the top of the mesa.

Then we could insert
scanning devices

to hopefully identify
what all these anomalies are

and figure out how best
to uncover them.

Boy, you can hear that below us,
can't you?

Yeah.

Jared, do you got a copy?
Are you going through

something real hard
right now or what?

I'm into something
fairly decently hard.

I'm only going
about a foot a minute

at 12,000 pounds.

TRAVIS:
At about 180 feet in,

the drill--
which should have been able

to cut through the rock
like nothing--

hit something that seemed to not
only slow the operation down

but might have caused some other
really weird things to happen.

ERIK:
What are you tuning
into there, Travis?

TRAVIS:
There's a signal at 1.6-ish.

All right, guys, the 1.6
measured by the Kraken is coming

right down the line
from Homestead Two.

Right there.

TRAVIS:
During many of our experiments
at the triangle,

the east field and the mesa,

we've detected radio signals
at 1.6 gigahertz.

And Erik and I believe that some
of them may have been a form

of communication
from an unknown source.

But it was eerie that Erik's
Kraken antenna system

pinpointed this one
several hundred yards away

at Homestead Two.

We've not only documented
a lot of phenomena there--

including orb-like UAPs--

but past ranch investigators
from the Bigelow team

have told us that they believed

there could actually be
an interdimensional portal

in that area.

Holy crap.

It is right here.

It is coming
from straight overhead.

When Kaleb and I
got over there to see

if we could find
the actual source of the signal,

we discovered that it was coming
from directly overhead,

in the sky.

I want to put
a rocket right here

and launch it
right up through there.

So, with Dragon's help,

we launched a rocket to see
if it would come into contact

with whatever might be up there.

We're launching
in three, two, one.

TRAVIS:
Boy, that one went
straight up, didn't it?

The rocket shot up
several hundred feet

without any kind
of interference.

But then

one of the weirdest things
we've ever seen happened.

KALEB:
Almost looked like it stopped
right there for a second.

-Dude, it looks like
it's stuck there. Look.
-KALEB: Yeah.

TRAVIS:
Look, it's not moving at all.

-It's just sitting there.
-KALEB: It stopped.

TRAVIS:
The rocket froze midair

for several seconds
as if something invisible

was holding onto it.

Could whatever was broadcasting

that 1.6 gigahertz signal

have somehow taken hold
of the rocket?

And was it connected

to whatever is buried
inside the mesa?

Another experiment
that we conducted

at the triangle would offer
a possible answer.

One that might be connected

to a lot of the phenomena
we've experienced

all across the ranch.

PETE: There is an anomaly
right at Homestead Two.

TRAVIS: It's coming up from that
angle to some point above us.

Kind of looks about as high
as the laser went.

And we've measured something
nobody has ever seen before.

This is incredible.

operation continued in 2023...
r mesg

Are you ready
to make it bright again?

I am. Let's do it.

...we conducted another

multi-tech experiment
at the triangle

to further investigate
the anomalous zone between

the ground and nearly
a mile high in the air.

-You ready to paint the ground,
paint the sky?
-Absolutely.

-You ready, Jim?
-We're ready.

So, we got a lot to do,
so I say we get to it.

The plan was for our friends

from a company named
Nu-Salt Laser Light Shows

to set up a laser cannon
that would shoot a single beam

up through the anomalous zone
while we launched some rockets.

ROYSTON:
Man, we got all kinds of TVs.

TRAVIS:
Meanwhile, we would scan
the entire area

from the ground to the sky
surrounding the laser beam

with three different types
of lidar devices.

One would be an aerial
drone-based device

operated by Jim Royston.

Another was
a terrestrial laser scanner

that Pete Kelsey set up
on a tripod

in the triangle area.

And finally,
Kaleb Bench was operating

a hand-held unit
known as a SLAM scanner.

All three of these devices
use infrared light

that can image things
on the ground and in the air

that the naked eye
might not be able to see.

Okay, Tim, you're ready to test.

Right. We're ready.
Laser's coming on.

Laser's on.

TRAVIS:
There you go.

Uh, guys.

We are hitting something
with the laser. Y-Y'all, look.

We're hitting something.

You see the spot up there?

That-- it should just be a beam.

What are we hitting?

DON:
I have no idea.

TRAVIS: The laser beam
was clearly being cut off,

or absorbed, by something

about 2,000 feet in the sky.

Well, look at that.

So you guys are aware,
just be advised

we have seen a 1.6...

TRAVIS:
Then, just like what happened

during our drilling operation
in the mesa,

Erik's Kraken system detected

a 1.6 gigahertz signal
coming from Homestead Two.

And moments later, he saw a UAP

over the mesa on his infrared
surveillance camera.

-THOMAS: Wow.
-This is crazy.

It is not like an asteroid

or, I mean, a comet
or a meteorite

-or anything like that.
-ERIK: No.
-No.

You know, looking at this
has just made me

all the more curious

about SLAM scanning.
Did anything happen

-with the lidar device?
-Yep, and...

Well, I'll just show you.

TRAVIS:
The next day,

after studying
the shocking video of the UAP,

we couldn't wait to see what all
the lidar data might show us.

PETE:
So, this was Kaleb's path while
walking with the lidar scanner.

A lidar scan
can see fine details

that would be invisible
to the naked eye aboveground,

but just wait.

-THOMAS: What?
-PETE: That's impossible.

Lidar can't see
through the ground.

-No.
-Oh, my God.

The lidar somehow imaged
a massive ring of data

beneath the triangle

that matched up perfectly
with the two previous

circular anomalies
that Jim Royston

had detected at the triangle.

Was this more evidence
of a wormhole?

We don't know,
but it was just the beginning

of what
this experiment revealed.

PETE:
This is one

of the terrestrial
laser scans we did

from our perspective
at the triangle.

The terrestrial
laser scanner can see

farther and gather more points

per second than
the SLAM scanner can.

We're looking at an anomaly
out in the east field.

What in the actual crap?

That is insane.

PETE:
I don't know what it is,

but there had to be
something there

for the lidar to detect it.

Can you zoom out further?

Look at that.

Yeah, look at this. What?

Look at this smear all around.

It's like we're inside
a cone of something.

Can you look up?

-It does go into a cone.
-KALEB: Whoa.

-Look at that.
-TRAVIS: I mean that is insane.

You're inside it.
We're all inside it.

The terrestrial scanner imaged
a massive cone-shaped anomaly.

It stretched all the way
from Homestead Two,

where we detected
the 1.6 gigahertz signal,

over to the east field canyon.

And what was really incredible

is, the apex was directly above
the center of the triangle

at 2,000 feet.

The exact altitude
where our laser beam

was cut off
during the experiment.

Could this be what causes
all the phenomena

at those three hot spots
on Skinwalker Ranch?

We conducted another
experiment to find out,

and, believe it or not,
the results were even crazier.

-Drone going up, Pete.
.

TRAVIS:
After all the crazy phenomena

we documented
across the ranch in 2023...

Okay, we're gonna get airborne.

...our final experiment
of the year

truly left us wondering if
these things are interconnected.

-TRAVIS (over walkie):
Cameron, are you in place?
-I am.

TRAVIS: The experiment
involved multiple technologies,

including launching rockets...

There it goes. Rocket's up.

...a mobilized,
ranch-wide lidar scan

that was also tracked
by Cameron Fugal

-in the helicopter...
-Go.

...and a hot-air balloon
propane burner

that we used
as a huge flamethrower

at the center of the triangle.

Three. Two. One. Stop.

The results
were absolutely amazing...

-KALEB: Whoa, what was that?
-BOBBY: I don't know.

Something just went right
across the mesa like that.

...and affirming.

We once again detected
the cone-shaped anomaly

stretching from Homestead Two,

through the triangle,
and over to the east field.

And while we didn't see
more data

related to ring-shaped anomalies
at the triangle,

we did see those exact kind
of phenomena in the east field.

PETE:
So, have a look at this.

This is familiar
but different this time.

Why are there data points
underneath the surface?

PETE:
Exactly. So, that is impossible.

Lidar can't see
through the ground.

Oh, wow.

That is amazing.

I mean, the textbook
definition of anomalous.

PETE:
There's one more for me

to show that's kind of crazy.

You see these
right here in the sky?

Oh, yeah.

That's looking back toward

the photogrammetry anomaly.

We obtained more
possible evidence

of a massive
column-shaped anomaly,

which we first documented
back in 2021.

Whoa.

ERIK:
Look at this structure.

This phantom structure
that's sticking up in the sky.

That's nuts.

TRAVIS:
Multiple UAPs also appeared
in our specialized camera data,

which were maneuvering
all around the helicopter.

-Isn't that bizarre?
-Yeah.

TRAVIS:
And finally,
a mysterious light appeared

in Dry Gulch Creek,

which is located
in the south field.

-TRAVIS: Oh.
-BRYANT: What the hell?

TRAVIS:
What could that be?

This wouldn't be my lights
from the helicopter?

No, your spotlight was out
well in front of the helicopter.

-CAMERON: Oh, yeah. Okay.
-This is coming
from directly below.

Why... why in the river?
I mean, that's so bizarre.

THOMAS:
Not just anywhere in the river,

but I think that
this spot in the river

has special significance

based on our excursion
down the river.

BRYANT:
That wolf creature
that was described

as a possibility
of an ancient dire wolf.

That's not very far
around the bend from there.

No, it's not.

TRAVIS:
This is where

we recently discovered
a dead creature

that, according
to biologist Ben Woodruff...

BEN:
The size fits
into that hole perfectly.

...may have been a dire wolf.

-What?
-You kidding me?

TRAVIS:
A kind of predator
which supposedly went extinct

about 10,000 years ago.

Everything I'm measuring,
everything I'm looking at says

it looks like it has dire wolf
in it or is a young dire wolf.

TRAVIS:
The experiment gave us

more incredible data
that suggests

all the phenomena we keep
encountering on the ranch

may be connected to one another.

If that's the case,
what is the cause?

All I know for sure is,
we won't stop this investigation

until we know exactly what the
secret of Skinwalker Ranch is.

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